How to import only one module in a package when the package __init__.py has already imports the modules?

[Peng Yu]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve at remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:54:47 -0500, Peng Yu wrote:
>
>> So python would not be able to accommodate my preference one
>> class/function per file?
>
> Of course it does! You can do that RIGHT NOW -- just put one class per
> file.
>
>> I.e., I have to use something like 'from spam
>> import spam' or 'spam.spam()',
>
> How else do you expect to use the class if you don't import it?
>
>
>> or accept that the filename is not the
>> same as the class/function name.
>
> So let me see...
>
> You don't want to write "import spam; spam.spam()"
> You don't want to write "from spam import spam; spam()"
> You don't want to write "from Spam import spam; spam()"
> You don't want to write "from spam import Spam; Spam()"
>
> What exactly do you want?

When I define class spam in file spam.py, I want to call it by

import spam
spam()

If spam.py is in dir/, then I want to call it by

import dir.spam

dir.spam()